Tall Tails

Or, perhaps that should be long tails. �

Summer has finally arrived on the Central Coast of California and with warmer water, south swells, and bait balls. �Bait balls, or large schools of bait fish, are easily observed just offshore. Though you can't generally see the fish themselves, what you can see is often just as impressive. �Large flocks of seagulls, dive-bombing pelicans, a froth of seals and sea lions, and evidently thresher sharks as well.

Thresher Shark, photo: www.atlanticanglers.com

About a month or so ago, I paddled out with a friend on a classic summer evening; warm water, sunny skies, kine little chest high peelers coming through on the inside bar. �After about 30 minutes or so, we watched in awe as a 6' thresher shark started to destroy some unlucky thing, thrashing wildly only 50' from where we sat! �

The water cleared, and my friend and I eventually went in as well, not from fear of the thresher so much as fear of what might come sniffing around all the blood and noise. �

Later, over an oil can of Fosters on the bluff above the break, I assured my friend that these shark feed on bait fish and that it would be highly unlikely that they would ever bite a surfer (as we watched it cruise right through the line-up). �

Then a few days later the local paper reports that a surfer at this break was treated for puncture wounds from what was suspected to be a small shark. �

I don't really have an end to this story but I thought it was worth sharing all the same. �Any of you out there in the blog-o-sphere have any fish stories to share?

Until next time, keep your feet up.

Aloha.

Source: http://seahugger.blogspot.com/2009/07/tall-tails.html

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